Mozilla has released Firefox 7. Unlike releases of Firefox 5 and Firefox 6 which were relatively minor upgrades to the browser, Firefox 7 includes a number of significant improvements, most important of which is probably the drastically reduced memory usage.

It's the features added by extensions that keep me faithful to Firefox. I don't have the solution, but it's a real problem. With every upgrade one or more addons that I use is disabled and makes the new improved version of Firefox feel like a step backward.

It's the features added by extensions that keep me faithful to Firefox. I don't have the solution, but it's a real problem. With every upgrade one or more addons that I use is disabled and makes the new improved version of Firefox feel like a step backward.

I've never had any problem, except for the Australian dictionary. I simply used the GB dictionary instead. In addition for one update, one of my addons wasn't available for a week or so.

The significant majority of the addons hosted on addons.mozilla.org should work after an update, since Mozilla automatically verifies them for compatibility.

It's nice that it Works For You, but that's no answer to the problem of what to do when it doesn't work.

My experience is like the grandparent: Every FF update breaks at least one extension that I use daily. It's a good thing that I can control when I update so that I can delay upgrading until all my extensions have been updated. Oh, wait! Apparently FF updates never break anything, so Mozilla is going to make it all transparent, automatic and impossible to opt out of. Well that's good news; it's not as if I ever have to worry about testing my web sites on older versions of the engine... oh, wait.

Got fed up with Firefox because of this, and recently switched browsers to Lunascape. It's switchable on the fly between 3 engines, "Firefox's Gecko, Chrome's Webkit, and IE's Trident engine". It also uses Firefox extensions with no problems, and no breaking compatibility every week. Also very configurable.

Got fed up with Firefox because of this, and recently switched browsers to Lunascape. It's switchable on the fly between 3 engines, "Firefox's Gecko, Chrome's Webkit, and IE's Trident engine". It also uses Firefox extensions with no problems, and no breaking compatibility every week. Also very configurable.